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System, empire and state in Chinese international relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2003

Abstract

Two criticisms have long been directed at the theorization of international relations (IR): ahistoricism and Eurocentrism. Westphalia, it is argued, has been so stigmatized that it has become synonymous with the beginning as well as the end of what we understand as international relations. Rationalist theorizing in general, of both the neorealist and neoliberal persuasions, has produced a set of deductive theories that aim and claim to transcend history.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 British International Studies Association

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